Alan Knicely
Houston Astros 1979–1982; Cincinnati Reds 1983–1985; Philadelphia Phillies 1985; St. Louis Cardinals 1986
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .250 | 5.9 | -23.1 | .188 | 0.0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -122.5 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .571 | .571 | 1.429 | 2.000 | 496.7 | 466.3 | .882 | 0.4 |
| 1982 | 59 | 149 | 133 | 10 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 30 | 0 | 1 | .188 | .270 | .248 | .518 | 48.8 | 51.4 | .245 | -0.3 |
| 1983 | 59 | 115 | 98 | 11 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 16 | 28 | 0 | 2 | .224 | .333 | .316 | .650 | 78.0 | 78.5 | .305 | 0.3 |
| 1984 | 10 | 35 | 29 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .138 | .200 | .138 | .338 | -12.5 | -5.0 | .171 | -0.4 |
| 1985 | 55 | 185 | 165 | 17 | 40 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 26 | 16 | 38 | 0 | 0 | .242 | .310 | .388 | .698 | 88.8 | 91.0 | .318 | 0.8 |
| 1986 | 34 | 100 | 82 | 8 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 17 | 21 | 1 | 1 | .195 | .330 | .268 | .598 | 79.8 | 69.3 | .299 | -0.2 |
Career totals
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982-07-29 | CIN @ HOU Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1985-05-22 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1985-06-01 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1981-10-04 | HOU @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1983-08-16 | HOU @ CIN Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.